Many prisons in the UK are overcrowded (Image: Getty) It’s not often I praise Met Police Chief Mark Rowley, mainly on account of the fact that when he got the job he made big promises to revolutionise the force - none of which he’s kept. His officers – presumably on his orders – refuse to arrest people, protestors, and anti-Semites, who are breaking the law under their noses. They block cities, they deface buildings, they stop emergency services from getting sick people to hospitals, they call Jews horrific names, they threaten them, and yet most of them get no more than a slap on the wrist.
However, this week Rowley and a few other police chiefs have stuck the proverbial two fingers up at the Government after being told their officers should arrest fewer criminals because there’s a dire shortage of prison cells. Of course, if they did it would effectively be giving the green light to criminals to do exactly what they want because there is no chance they’ll be lifted or incarcerated. How many ways is this Government going to facilitate violent and persistent criminals by effectively letting them off? Rowley and others have quite rightly said a big fat 'No' to pausing arrests on the basis that the public need protecting and a shortage of jail cells isn’t going to change that.
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